 The Slave Girl Chronicles: Part One, "The Culling" (A Serial Novel) Jet is a 19-year-old skag, one of the humans still living free on Earth following an invasion of creatures called the Nirreth. Squatting in the ruins of Vancouver, Canada, Jet and her family eke out an existence underground, hiding from the culler ships. No one knows where the ships take the people they grab, but they never return. When a culler finds Jet, she may discover the truth the hard way. Purchase on Amazon, Barnes and Noble or Smashwords |
 The Slave Girl Chronicles: Part Two, "The Green Zone" (A Serial Novel) Jet is a 19-year-old skag, one of the humans who used to live free on Earth following an invasion of creatures called the Nirreth. After she is kidnapped by one of the alien culler ships from her home city of Vancouver, she finds she is now the property of the Green Zone, one of the massive Nirreth cities that dot continents across the globe (serial novel, continuation from Part 1). Purchase on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Smashwords |
 "The Alien Club" Suki thought she knew what she’d signed up for when her pal, Rishi, invited her to a corporate party at one of the new alien fetish clubs. The new “must have” experience for the uber-rich and uber-bored supposedly involved sex-starved aliens who could give orgasms just by looking at a person. But when Suki arrives, she soon finds out that the clubs are really about something else entirely. Purchase on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Smashwords |
 "The Box: An Indian Tale" Priscilla putters along in her usual life of bridge and gossip and coffee shops and shopping at the local markets in the small Indian town where she lives, until one morning, the mysterious man known only as the Pharsee gives her a box. The thing is filthy, twitchy and just plain wrong…but no matter what Priscilla tries, or how many cleaning boys she fires, she simply cannot get rid of it. Purchase on Amazon, Barnes and Noble or Smashwords |
 "Elephant" Didier is an elephant, but he isn't sure if he likes being an elephant all that much. He lives in Mumbai with his mother, who tells fantastic tales of the wild, before humans captured her and turned her into a domestic animal. Neither she nor the rest of Mr. Rahol's herd, however, understand Didier's quest to determine whether it might be better to be some other animal instead. Purchase on Amazon, Barnes and Noble or Smashwords |
 "Marla the Lemur" Marla’s boyfriend, Billy, might live a little too much in a fantasy world. Then again, Marla sees lemurs in the apple tree outside and wonders if the little man she sees screaming at her from Billy’s shoulder is actually there. Insanity might be one way to get out of a bad relationship. Following your boyfriend into his imaginary world might be another. Purchase on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or Smashwords |
 "The Black Men and Steven Spielberg" Semi-autobiographical but mostly fantastical essay on growing up in the outdoors of California, and the importance of having family just as quirky and not-quirky as you are. Purchase on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or Smashwords |
 "The Vampire Market" (A Novella) Vlad is a bored, irritated vampire living in San Jose, California. Tired of the neverending parade of life, cable television and boring food, he lets his friend, a flatulent demon named Roz, talk him into a night on the town at the monthly Vampire Markets at the Winchester Mystery House. Little does he know, Vlad’s life will never be the same again. Purchase on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or Smashwords |
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"Daydreams of the Apocalypse: A Collection"
Six stories of the apocalypse, from the point of view of an ex-stock broker a crow, a young girl, a soldier turned holy warrior, a sentient automobile and a being who incarnates every few centuries as a human only to be killed and have to do the whole thing all over again. The world is ending, about to end or long gone in these tales by JC Andrijeski Purchase on Amazon, Barnes and Noble or Smashwords |
 "Monkey: An Indian Tale" Tugli lives happily in a metal box on a friendly street where vendors hawk wares and a Buddhist stupa sits at his back. Everything pretty much goes the same way, every day, until the day the pickle lady stops delivering the pickles. After that, a disgruntled monkey, a three-legged dog and a kindly old woman pretty much disrupt the course of Tugli's life forever. Purchase on Amazon, Barnes & Noble or Smashwords |
 "He Lacks Utility" Reggie Brinks just wanted to ride out the deadly virus that threatened to kill the world. A few months in cryogenic freeze while they came up with a cure, and he’d be right as rain. But the civilization that greets him on the other side is a pretty far cry from the one he left behind, and infuriatingly, he finds his opinions and money just don’t have quite the pull they had when he left. Purchase on Amazon, Barnes & Noble or Smashwords |
 "Bird Magics" Ulak is a crow. A berry addict and eccentric in the crow community living in the courtyard behind a row of white houses, he decides one day that the humans have to die. Convinced he knows the secret to making this happen, he shares his ambitions with his two friends, Fark and Jaak. They, of course, think he's nuts...at least until the white lights begin to appear in the sky.
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 "Snowfall" After volunteering for a recon mission, the girl finds herself on a planet long abandoned to the devastation of her own species. Given the disease and war wreaked on the planet, creating an endless winter, the girl is shocked to find survivors after so many years. But a long time has passed and the world these strangers have built is based on rules she can't comprehend...even before they force her into a test that might get her killed. Purchase ebook on Amazon, Barnes & Noble or Smashwords |
 "...Beware the Jabberwock, My Son" A squad of soldiers takes a ride out to the middle of nowhere, thinking they’re being punished for posting pictures of the Lieutenant’s old lady. But in an empty stretch of desert lives a cave where they stumble across a man whose presence they can’t explain...who speaks in riddles and seems to know them. Before they can figure out what he wants, they're already marked men. Purchase on Amazon, Barnes & Noble or Smashwords |
 "Karma" What if Hitler and Churchill were actually playing out an age-old battle between two rivals that had been incarnating together over and over across time? Exploring roles from evil to good to lazy and decadent in an attempt to understand the human experience, one of these beings seems destined to destroy the other, no matter what the circumstances, no matter how much the world changes over time. Purchase on Amazon, Barnes & Noble or Smashwords |
 "Dirt" Due to an untimely mishap with a runaway piano, a thief and a homeless lady with a very pointy umbrella, Harold gets to know some of his neighbors living in a single tree planter box on a New York City Street. Purchase on Amazon, Barnes & Noble or Smashwords |
 "Organic" What if in the future your car were made of as many animal parts as machine? What if it became self-aware and less and less enamored of toting you and your family around, getting its seats covered in ice cream and being left in parking lots for hours on end? What if it and some of its friends decided to do something about it? In Organic, meet your car. And be nervous. Very, very nervous. Purchase on Amazon, Barnes & Noble or Smashwords |
 "New Girl"
Calling the new girl, Lucy, odd is more than a tad bit of understatement.
In a short period of time, she frees Amber of her inhibitions, her prestigious
corporate project, her teeth, her sense of style…and her sanity. A bizarre tale
of corporate cannibalism…or a generous sacrifice for a fellow human being? I
guess that depends on your perspective.
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 "The Program" A successful, beige-wearing business woman is minding her own business, blending in, not making waves. But after hundreds of identical business motivation conventions, each with their own system for getting ahead, maximizing your potential, executing success, demonstrating excellence…she meets someone who offers to show her the evil pattern behind it all. Sort of. Purchase on Amazon, Barnes & Noble or Smashwords |
M is for Monster Anthology
Available as an ebook at Amazon.com
From the foreword: "...Inside, you will find twenty-six varied tales of monsters old and new, some dredged from the die-hard legends of old and some assembled from the innovative demands of creative necessity. These monstrosities span the lengths of the English alphabet, and with them, we authors bring to you a taste of our own flavors and haunts from around the globe." (John Prescott)
Comments on the story by JC Andrijeski on Amazon.com: "...Oddly erratic and disorientating from the beginning, the tale sets down an underlying tension...until the horror hits the reader like a sledgehammer to the face. From that moment onwards, the shorts takes on a neck-braking pace, delivering monster-mayhem in abundance. Compelling, exciting, and truly fitting to the anthology."
Monk Punk Anthology
Available as an ebook or paperback at Amazon.com
From the Product Description: "In the tradition of Steampunk and Cyberpunk comes a new sub-strain of speculative fiction—Monk Punk. A.J. French has gathered 23 hard-hitting Monk Punk tales of fantasy, science fiction, and horror, featuring stories from some of the best established and upcoming authors, including George Ivanoff, William Meikle, David J. West, R.B. Payne, Sean T. M. Stiennon, and John R. Fultz. Prepare yourself for ordination..."
Miscellany re: Writings
"Interview with Chris Hill" - Interview of promoter of "Pushforward" arts & culture iPhone app on Escape Into Life, April 15th, 2010
"Zeitgeist: Addendum" - description on Showcase segment of Escape into Life, April 14th, 2010
"Journey Into the Red Book - Liber Primus" - essay on Carl Jung's The Red Book. Featured in Escape Into Life, January 31st, 2010 (written by J. Andrijeski)
"The Program" Dog vs. Sandwich, August 11, 2008 (written by J. Andrijeski)
"Bomb the City" Mayor Bloomberg vs. NYC Graffiti Artists", New York Press, May 10, 2006 (written by J. Andrijeski, click here for byline)
Film clip of The Treehouse, by Margorie Sturm (J. Andrijeski, creative consulting work)
"Mumbletoes"
A Story of
Friendship. In the anthology Ogner Stump's 1,000 Sorrows, by Andrew Goldfarb.
The story of an angry young...err, boy...who befriends a fish that grows in his
ear.
“...The final piece illustrates a poem by J. Andrijeski called
“Mumbletoes.” This one reminds me of Shel Silverstein; simple drawings,
singsong poetry, and I love it.”
--Shannon Wheeler, Too
Much Coffee Man
"...Think the Cat in the Hat on peyote juice.”
--Darren Schroeder, Comicsbulletin
Rook - Graphic Novel (Episode 1)
Alyson Taylor, a 28 year-old waitress in San Francisco, has always known she was different. Yet even one hundred years after the discovery of a second, human-like race on Earth, she's not ready to admit she might not be human. This episode introduces readers to the alternate Earth history of Rook, and the seer who comes to find her, Revik, an ex-Nazi who tells her she's about to end the world...
